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Maybe if this jibberish was run back and forth thru google translator a few times it would make sense to me.

If I'm understanding the writer correctly. It's a nationals fan who is upset that Joe Straus, a Cardinal writer, randomally mentioned the Nationals. Apparently random comments on twitter is a big no-no from a National's fan perspective.

That being said, there's something awfully rich about someone from St. Louis of all places getting upset because someone thinks they've invented the game of baseball.

Not sure who from St Louis is getting upset. Straus wrote Natitude as a random twitter comment, was attacked by rabid National fans(all eight of them I imagine) and responded in kind.

1. Cards fans are insufferable asshats. This is established lore.
2. National fans are insufferable asshats with a helping of blind entitlement as well. This is established wisdom.
3. #Natitude is a fantastic marketing campaign, because you lot are talking about it.
4. "Chicks dig the long ball" is even better, because you lot are talking about it 20 years later!*

*also, because "hey, we got Cy Young winners over here!" is a great, great line.

All the above ado about nothing aside, has there ever been a dumber marketing slogan than "Natitude"?

I wasn't a fan of "Rocktober".

Yeah, but didn't that last just for one mercifully short stretch run back in 2007? I have to admit I don't pay much attention to marketing slogans, but since I'm in the DC it's been hard to avoid this "Natitude" BS. (Nothing against the team, BTW, just the stupid slogan.)

Hey, I'm a Braves fan, and I agree. My point was that the Braves offense to this point in the season seems to be the HR. That'll change as BJ and Heyward continue to find their groove, but as of now the Braves offensive success is tied to the HR. That's a good thing, because they hit a ton of them.

He wrote "Nattitude" because the Nats lost, and all of their fans came out of the woodwork and attacked him. Imagine if he had said something of substance.

If he had said something of actual substance, people might have thought it wasn't a drive-by shooting. If I write 'Mark Teixeira #TrueYankee', it's obvious what the point is. It's tough to hide behind 'what I just "randomly mentioned" Mark Teixeira?'.

Nats fans are sensitive.

Pot meet kettle. You're the most sensitive person on BBTF. Hell, right now you are getting sensitive about Cardinals journalists.

Yeah, but didn't that last just for one mercifully short stretch run back in 2007? I have to admit I don't pay much attention to marketing slogans, but since I'm in the DC it's been hard to avoid this "Natitude" BS. (Nothing against the team, BTW, just the stupid slogan.)

They referenced it for the better part of a year after that, and it was recycled as the Rockies started to get hot in the stretch run the next season as well.

\"#### those ######' fans who come out here and say they're Cub fans that are supposed to be behind you rippin' every ######' thing you do. I'll tell you one ######' thing, I hope we get ######' hotter than ####, just to stuff it up them 3,000 ######' people that show up every ######' day, because if they're the real Chicago ######' fans, they can kiss my ######' ass right downtown and PRINT IT.

"They're really, really behind you around here... my ######' ass. What the #### am I supposed to do, go out there and let my ######' players get destroyed every day and be quiet about it? For the ######' nickel-dime people who turn up? The ############# don't even work. That's why they're out at the ######' game. They oughta go out and get a ######' job and find out what it's like to go out and earn a ######' living. Eighty-five percent of the ######' world is working. The other fifteen percent come out here. A ######' playground for the cocksuckers. Rip them #############. Rip them ######' cocksuckers like the ######' players. we got guys bustin' their ######' ass, and them ######' people boo. And that's the Cubs? My players get around here. I haven't seen it this ######' year. Everybody associated with this organization have been winners their whole ######' life. Everybody. And the credit is not given in that respect.

"Alright, they don't show because we're 5 and 14... and unfortunately, that's the criteria of them dumb 15 ############' percent that come out to day baseball. The other 85 percent are earning a living. I tell you, it'll take more than a 5 and 12 or 5 and 14 to destroy the makeup of this club. I guarantee you that. There's some ######' pros out there that wanna win. But you're stuck in a ######' stigma of the ######' Dodgers and the Phillies and the Cardinals and all that cheap ####. It's unbelievable. It really is. It's a disheartening ######' situation that we're in right now. Anybody who was associated with the Cub organization four or five years ago that came back and sees the multitude of progress that's been made will understand that if they're baseball people, that 5 and 14 doesn't negate all that work. We got 143 ######' games left.

"What I'm tryin' to say is don't rip them ######' guys out there. Rip me. If you wanna rip somebody, rip my ######' ass. But don't rip them ######' guys 'cause they're givin' everything they can give. And right now they're tryin' to do more than God gave 'em, and that's why we make the simple mistakes. That's exactly why."

Hey, I'm a Braves fan, and I agree. My point was that the Braves offense to this point in the season seems to be the HR. That'll change as BJ and Heyward continue to find their groove, but as of now the Braves offensive success is tied to the HR. That's a good thing, because they hit a ton of them.

Hey, I'm a Braves fan, and I agree. My point was that the Braves offense to this point in the season seems to be the HR. That'll change as BJ and Heyward continue to find their groove, but as of now the Braves offensive success is tied to the HR. That's a good thing, because they hit a ton of them.

The Astros are 4-26. The Mariners and White Sox are 5-20. The Rangers are 5-15. The Mets are 4-18, the Rockies 4-17...

I admit that that was an impressive rollcall of self-parody, but I still think that "Natitude" takes the prize for combining a classically stupid pun with a pathetic attempt at hipsterism. It's probably no accident that our most dimwitted Primate uses it as part of his BTF handle.

And hey, Tom Foley, who was that who came up with that 1983 Cubs "slogan"? Was it Dallas Green? It kind of sounds like him.

I admit that that was an impressive rollcall of self-parody, but I still think that "Natitude" takes the prize for combining a classically stupid pun with a pathetic attempt at hipsterism.

You're just being an old man, Andy. It's a stupid slogan because all slogans are stupid. "Natitude" is vapid, idiotic and fundamentally stupid. Just like "Baseball Fever: CATCH IT!" All sports slogans are moronic.

You're just being an old man, Andy. It's a stupid slogan because all slogans are stupid. "Natitude" is vapid, idiotic and fundamentally stupid. Just like "Baseball Fever: CATCH IT!" All sports slogans are moronic.

I totally agree with your point about sports slogans, but one of them has to be the worst, and my geographically weighted vote is for "Natitude". But that doesn't mean it doesn't have lots of competition for the dumbest slogan ever, and if I lived in Denver and had been more aware of its persistence past 2007, I might have shifted my ballot to "Rocktober".

I liked it when the Cardinals would do songs for their slogans... One year when the pennant race was pretty much out of it, they made Mike and the Mechanics song "all we need is a miracle" their slogan.. (other songs that they have used in the past was "The heat is on" and "Celebration")

In the 1970s (IIRC) the Philadelphia NBA team had as its slogan "the Sixers got Hoopla."

But didn't they also have an even more embarrassing slogan, something like "We owe you one" after they got embarrassed in the 1977 finals by Portland, only to get eliminated even earlier the next year by the Bullets? I remember Bullets fans in the Capital Centre mocking them with "You owe them two" after they got the final axe in game six.

The homeliest women award has to go to Maine. Now, forget about your fancy pants vacation towns like Ogunquit and Kennebunkport, I mean real Maine, non York County Maine. The women range from stocky, sturdy gas station attendants to wrinkled, aged beyond their years meth heads. Once in a while you'll see a thin, short haired athletic L.L. Bean type, but I assume they are lesbians.

I don't think I've ever really met an honest to goodness adult Nationals fan so I can't say how sensitive they are or are not but I will say the bunch on BTF are an extremely sensitive bunch when it comes to the Nationals.

I don't think I've ever really met an honest to goodness adult Nationals fan so I can't say how sensitive they are or are not but I will say the bunch on BTF are an extremely sensitive bunch when it comes to the Nationals.

... which is very strange because most people on this site actually don't hate the Nats. They have Harper and Strasburg and a bunch of watchable pitchers, and were very exciting last year. On the other hand, after they were good last year, Nats fans seem mystified why their success, coming at the cost of other other teams, would make the fans of those other teams unhappy. "Why don't you love us as much as we love us?!"

"Rocktober" wasn't bad in 2007. The Rockies were on an insane winning streak where every single possible thing that could go right, did go right (until the World Series). It's a specific event, like The Shot Heard 'Round the World (which was a less impressive pennant run).

Did they change the definition of "hilarious"? Or are the hilarity standards that much lower in St. Louis? Maybe something was left out of the excerpt? If not, there seems to be a 75-post thread about nothing.

Did they change the definition of "hilarious"? Or are the hilarity standards that much lower in St. Louis? Maybe something was left out of the excerpt? If not, there seems to be a 75-post thread about nothing.

The person calling it hilarious is a National fan, not a St Louis writer.